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Some of us like to complete a project, then once we’re happy with it, move on and start the next one, but not Tobias Arkell. He’s owned this Fiesta XR2i for over a decade now and in that time it’s evolved from a standard car, to getting a highcompression, normally-aspirated CVH, then onto a turbo, and in its most recent, completed form, a rear-wheel-drive conversion and turbocharged ST170 motor — the one constant being that the car has always looked like a standard-ish XR2i from the outside.

The Fiesta’s latest incarnation

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